Adobe Reader 7.0 on Feisty Fox

I recently bought Nikon D80 DSLR eBook on CD (review to follow). Naturally it expects the very latest Acrobat Reader to support its interactive features.

The latest I can find for Linux is 7.0. I don't know if that's recent enough, I think 8.0 is expected.

Anyway, I grabbed the download from Adobe and installed it on my Ubuntu “Feisty Fawn” box, only to discover that it wouldn't run. Running acroread produced “expr: syntax error” ad nauseum.

If this happens to you, perhaps this patch will help:

*** /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/acroread~	2007-01-05 14:56:39.000000000 -0500
--- /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/acroread	2007-04-21 19:33:50.000000000 -0400
***************
*** 416,420 ****
          fi
  
!    		echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]\)00.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g'
          return 0
      fi
--- 416,420 ----
          fi
  
!    		echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]*\)00.\([0-9]*\)/\1\2\3/g'
          return 0
      fi

It helped me. But I'm not sure exactly what the script is on about, so I suppose it might not. YMMV.

Now on to the book…